East Metro Calendar Of Events
Date and Activity
Saturday Mach 6, 2010 - Scrapbooking 9am to 9pm
March 9, 2010 - Next Area Team Meeting
June 28, 2010 - Departure Day
August 29, 2010 - Twin Cities AFS Picnic
We encourage all volunteers (host families are very important volunteers) to participate in our area team meetings. This is our forum for planning and discussing the activities for the year and for future events.
Please join us at the East Metro Google Group for additional information, directions to meetings, and discussion: groups.google.com/group/east-metro-afs
East Metro Area Team meetings are scheduled on the following schedule dates:
March 9, 2010
Meetings are at 7pm and location varies. Interested in learning more about how you can make a difference and meet local volunteers? Contact andrewpiontek@earthlink.net for details of next meeting location.
Minutes from last meeting follw:
At the meeting were Anne, Paulette, Sue Davis, Nina, Ed and Diane Bratvold, Tom, Andrew, Linda, and Bob.
Hosting: Tom will be going to the hosting conference in early December. The deadline for finding host families for the semester arrivals is December 15. Tom is going to check with Stillwater and Paulette is going to try to find a host family if a position is available in the school.
No sending report.
Support: Anne reported that the biggest problem right now is the natural families having too many contacts with their child thus interfering with adjustment to US culture. We need a host family in North St. Paul if anyone has any ideas.
No orientations report:
Sponsored Programs: Feed my starving children volunteer opportunity is Thursday, November 19, 2009. Plans are complete. There has been interest from exchange students in the Minnesota International Center presentations program. Students signed up and took an orientation at fall orientation. They were to communicate with host family about their commitment. Students did not do a good job of telling host families. Bob is working on that.
Returnee updates: No report. We talked about the difficulties have in getting involved and what they can do. They can’t drive students or become liaisons. They can volunteer at orientations and activities.
Halloween party recap: We talked about a family rate and that parents could volunteer. That probably should be added to invitation. We had a family from farther away decide not to come because they thought all would have to pay and cost would be prohibitive. Volunteer parents would be encouraged to help with clean up at end. Also, if you volunteer for setup, be there on time at the start.
Work teams: The support team is working well.
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Arrival Orientation

Twin Cities Picnic
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Post Arrival Orientation

Halloween


